Old PC Game Music

Is there any way of ripping the MIDI music from old PC games? They rarely have the music stored in normal .mid files, which doesn't make things easy. Or are there any sites with archives of old game music which have already done this?

Actually, what happened to that thread about about game music websites in general? It seems to have disappeared...

 

http://www.vgmusic.com/

Dunno if it'll have what you want, but its usually the best place to start.

 

Also, many have .mod extensions, right?
Maybe look for something that can play .mod files.

 

I'm pretty sure WinAmp plays .mod files. Mine does, anyway. From there I just convert to .wav or .mp3 (I don't remember which). I now have the Crusader soundtrack on CD .

 

hmmmm Taemos: Blasphemy!!!(don´t worry) use modplug to convert to wav and then convert to mp3

do not use winamp for playing modfiles ! ! ! .

anyways

check this link

http://www.mirsoft.info/

this site has some guides too

 

What's wrong with WinAmp?

 

nothing is wrong with winamp but winamp does not play modfiles correct but anything else winamp is great (in my opinion)

 

A very good choice I must say
And also, some games of that era use CDDA, might be worth it going thru your discs again to check for audio tracks (Total Annihilation :ramen )

 

monkey island 1 one of the versions use CDDA also

 

The Mega CD version, I assume? I better check that out. Thanks for the links, guys!

 

oh and don't forget to play the Saturn C&C discs in your CD player... you'll be amazed (if you liked the original music to begin with). Extracting actual MIDI music from games would be a pain I imagine, if they use non-standard formats. MIDI is more complicated than raw PCM.

 

I already did that with the SS Command & Conquer! But I forgot there were different songs on the NOD disc, and it was my friend's game, and he's gone back home to the depths of hell now (also known as Sligo).

 

hmmmm zilog well the monkey island soundtrack is also on a pc version (i have it in a pirate version aka i burned it down from an iso file i found) and Civilisation 2 has CD music in one of the versions (one of my friends has a original civ2 disc without CD music :-S strange but true) many games has CD music and some has mp2 and mp3 instead (heroes of might and magic 2 and 3 if i remember correct )

 

Some seemed to use ADPCM as well. Well GTA2 did anyway.

 

so Zilog mate i would reccomend to those who using mod files as soundtrack that you use modplug to convert them to way and there from burn them to CD or make them into MP3 with CDex.

and to other formats use something to convert to wav and then into wav or mp3 if you don´t want them as a CD soundtrack.